Type-writing machine.



C. B. YAW.

TYPE WRITING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1,1912.

Patented J 11119 1, 1915.

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GLIO B. YAW', OF ARLINGTON, NEXV JERSEY, ASSIGNOR, BY MESN-EASSIGNMENTS, T0 REMINGTON TYEEWRITER COMPANY, OF ILION, NEW YORK, ACORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TYPE-WRITING MACHINE.

Patented June 1, 1915.

Application filed March 1, 1912. serial No. 680,785.

T all whom it may concern Be it known that 1. CH0 B. Yaw, citizen of theUnited States, and resident of Arlington, in the county of Hudson andState of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Type-\Vriting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates particularly to paper feeding, guiding andcontrolling mechanism for typewriting machines and its general object isto provide improved mechanism of the character specified.

More specifically stated, one object of the invention is to providenovel end stop or gaging devices for cooperation with the paper when itis introduced at the front of the machine.

Another object is to provide end stop or gaging devices of the characterspecified in combination with a paper guide or deflector which ismovable away from the platen when the end stops are moved toward thesame.

. Another object is to provide means for releasing the paper feedingdevices that cooperate with the platen and for concurrently moving theend stops to operative position and moving the paper deflector away fromthe platen so that paper may readily be introduced at the front of themachine and pushed bacluvardly around the same until gagcd by said endstops or gages.

Another object is to provide holding or detaining devices associatedwith means of the general character last stated.

Another object is to provide side gaging devices for the paper inconnection with paper controlling means of the characte stated above.

Other objects will hereinafter appear.

To the above ends my invention consists in the features of construction,combinations of devices and arrangements of parts hereinafter describedand particularly pointed out in the claims.

in the accon'ipanying drawings which illustrate one form of my saidinvention as applied to the platen. carrier or ca riage of a No. 11Remingtonfrontstrike typewriting machine, Figure 1 is a fragmentary topplan View of the platen and platen carrier showing my invention appliedthereto; Fig. 2

is a longitudinal sectional view of the sup-' porting and controllingdevices for the end stops or gages. Fig. 3 is a detail face view of thefriction disk or Washer included in the mounting ofsaid end stops orgages. Fig. at is a vertical sectional view taken on a plane designatedby the line arrin Fig. 1 and looking in the direction of the arrows atsaid line. Fig. 5 is an operating view of parts shown in Fig. at. Fig. 6is a fragmentary perspective view illustrating the mounting of the paperdeflector.

In the drawings, the platen 1 is supported on an axle 2 which bears inthe end bars 3 of a platen frame or carrier which further includes aconnecting cross bar 4; under the platen. The platen frame is shiftablymounted on a rectangular carriage truck which comprises front and rearbars 5 and 6 and connecting end bars 7, the front and rear bars 5 and 6being grooved to cooperate with roller hearings on the frame of themachine.

The cross bar-4t has secured to it angular brackets 8 which providebearings 101' a rock shaft 9, said rock shaft also bearing in the endbars 3. The rock shaft 9 supports a paper guiding member or combinedpaper table and deflector 10 which is not claimed per so by me, it,together with the means of supporting and controlling the same, beingthe invention of Alfred D. Maury and describedand claimed in. hisapplication, Serial No. 655,669, filed October 20, 1911, to whichapplication reference maybe had for a fuller description of the combinedtable and deflector than that contained herein. The rock shaft 9 alsosupports the two sections 11 comprising the main feedaoller,

which sections are arranged in line with each other and cooperate withthe platen 1 some distance inward from its ends and at the rear underside thereof.

Each roller section 11 is pivoted in a carrier 12- which bears looselyon the rock shaft 9 and is prevented from moving endwise of said shaftby a collar 13 and a crank arm 14 fixed thereto inside the ends of thecarrier. A. spring 15 coiled around the shaft 9 between said collar andsaid cranlrarm and fixed at one end to said. collar engages at its otherend'with the carrier 12 and presses the associate roller section 11constantly toward the platen. The crank arm 14: is

that disclosed in the application of Maury aforesaid but the principleof operation 1s the same. Arranged near each end of the platen and inline with the feed roll sections 11 but outside the same are short terminal 1 pressure rolls 16, each mounted on a "rod 17 which is supportedon a carrier 18 similar construction to the carrier 12 and com risingend portions and a connecting cross ar, the end portions being pivotedonthe 1.5 shaft 9. Collars 19 fixed to the shaft pre- 2 one end to oneof the collars l9 and at its vent endwise movement of the carriers 18and a coiled spring 20 is associated with each carrier 18 to press theroll 16 toward the platen,said spring 20 being secured at other endengaging with the cross bar of the carrier 18.- Unlike the main orintermediate rollers 11 the terminaLrolls 16 are not releasable from therock shaft 9, so that when the shaft is rocked the rolls 16 will not beaffected, said'rolls remaining constantly in spring pressed engagementwith the platen or the paper thereon.

The combined ;paper.table and deflector or guide member 10 is inclineddownwardly toward the pla enat its rear and the lower portion of saimember is curved to conform to the .;shape of the platenrather closelyat a? front and under side of the 85 platen, terminating somewhat belowthe printing line and'normally contacting with the platen or the paperthereon.

As indicated at 21 the member 10 is slotted to provide openings throughwhich 10 the pressure rolls 11 and '16 cooperate with the platen. Thepaper table portion of the member 10 extends upward and rearwardawayfrom the platen at the rear side thereof and terminates at aconslderable distance l5 above and behind the platen. In the presentinstance a.U-s haped bar 22 is secured as by rivets 23 to the upperportion of the memher and provides an extension thereof which is adaptedto support extra long sheets of paper. The member 10 is supported atthree points or places as follows. Secured to -its lower portion neareach end is an angular bracket 21 which, as clearly shown in Fig. 6, ispivotally connected at 25 with an arm 26 comprised in a supportingbracket which includes also bearing portions 27, a connecting cross arm28 and a downward extension 29 from one of the bearing portions 27. Thebearing portions are pivoted loosely on the shaft 9 and each extension29 is connected by a draw spring 30 with the'fl'amc bar 4, said drawsprings operating to maintain the member 10 in contact withthc platen,as shown in Fig. 4.

The middle of the upper portion of the member 10 is slidably supportedon the to extensions 3 on the end bars 3. The slot 1 3% is inclineddownward and forward and the disposition of the pivots 25 with respectto-the rock shaft 9 is' such that they will,

when the rock shaft 9 is turned, move downward and forward in a pathsubstantiallyparallel with the'angle of the slot 34, this movement beingcaused by crank arms 36 fixed to the rock shaft 9 and arranged tocooperate with ears 26 extending laterally I from the arms 26 near theirouter ends. As

a result of the impulse communicated from the rock shaft 9 through thecrank arms 36 and ears .26 to the guidemember 10, said member 10 willhave what is commonly referred to as a parallel motion, that is, pointsor parts of it will move in parallel paths;

and when released or moved away from the platen the memberlO will occupythe position shown in Fig. 5, providing a passage way or opening 0.extending between the member 10 and the platen 1, the'passage waybeginning at the front of the platen and somewhat below the printingline and extending the platen.

The devices for rocking the shaft 9 to releasefthc main feed roller 11and the guide member 10 in the manner described comprise a crank arm 37secured to the rock shaft 9 outside the left-hand end bar 3 andextending normally forward and upward as shown in Fig. l. Pivoted at 38to the crank arm 37 is the lower end of an eccentric strap 39, the upperend of which is formed with an eye into which fits an eccentric boss 40on the inner-face of an eccentric carrying member 41','the upper endof'which member terminates in a handle or finger piece 42. The member 41bears at 43 on a shouldered screw projecting laterally from an upwardextension 3 on the left-hand end bar 3.

Stop shoulders 44 and 45 on the member 41 are adapted to cooperate witha stop pin 46 on the strap 39 to limit the turning movedownward aroundand beneath.

piece 42 be pushed rearward from the Fig.

l to the" Fig. 5 position, the latter position being determined by theengagement of the shoulder 45 with the pin 46,theocccntric l0 turningabout the pivotal axis 43 will be lowered, causing the eccentric strap39 to swing downward until the eccentric is brought nearly on a deadcenter; and the parts will be i'naintained set in the- Fig. 5.

position, friction devices being preferably causing the arms It torelease the feed rollers 11. Concurrently the arms 36 acting" againstthe cars 26 will rock the supports '2629 against the springs 30,actuating the guide member 10 so that the deflector portion will move ina substantially radial direction and provide the opening or passage- Waya; at the front and lower sides of the, platen.

The mechanism thus described 1s particularly ad'i 'ited to what iscommonly termed front feeding, that is, the initial insertion of Worksheets backward from the front side of the platen instead of the commonmethod of insertion at the rear of the platen. In making use of thedevices thus far described for front feeding, I prefer to associate with.them gaging devices which are arranged to coperatc with the rear orbottom edge of the sheet or sheets so as to stop the sheets as insertedfrom the front of the machine and properly gage them.

As herein exemplified the gaging devices comprise two stop arms 47terminating at their lower ends in off-set end portions which constitutestops or gages proper 48. The gaging or stop devices 48 are adapted tomove toward and away from the platen behind the same and somewhat belowthe horizontal plane containing its axis through slots or openings 50 inthe guide member 10 when the arms 47 are moved or swung us now to bedescribed. Said arms are so disposed lengthwise of the platen (Fig. 1)that the stops 48 will come in the spaces between the outer pressureroll 16 and the main teed roller sections ll, although the stops aresomewhat above the bite of the rollers. The arms 47 incline upward andrearward bchind the member 10 and at their upper ends are adjustablyclamped by clamping screws 49 in kerfs 51 formed in bearing blocks orcrank arms secured by :-:crews 5? to a sleeve or tube 54-, which bearson the rod 35, said sleeve abutting at its left-hand end against theinner face of the left-hand extension 3. the right-hand end oi saidsleeve terminatinga short distance to the right of the right hand stoparm 47. The righthand end of the sleeve 54 carries a. friction disk 55having a collar portion which is secured by set screws 56 to the sleeve.A cooperating o ipi'isitcly faced friction disk 7 is similarly securedby set screws 58 to the rod just to the right of the sleeve 54 and disk(l igs. l and it). Arranged between the inner faces of the disks 55 and57 is a. friction device or washer 59 shown detached in Fig. Said washeris provided with a central opening 60 which fits loosely over the sleeveand also with a plurality of other openings or cut-outs 61 having mouths62. At the sides of these mouths the metal forming-the washer is bentout of the plane of the washer as indicated at 63, providing a number ofslightly projecting spring tongues. The washer 59 is depressed betweenthe disks 55 and 57 and generates sufiicient fric- Ption against thedisk 55 to hold the sleeve 54 carrying the stop arms in adjustedpositions whensaid sleeve has been turned or givenrotarymovement on thebearing rod 35. Preferably the sleeve is connected to the member ll sothat an operation of the key 42 may not only release the main feedroller and the deflector or guide member 10 but may also move the stops48 into operative position through the openings 50. The devicesconstituting the connection include a crank arm 64 suitably secured tothe lefthand end of the sleeve 5% and projecting oppositely from thecrank arms 52. The crank arm 64 is provided at its free end with aheaded screw 65 oil-set to the left as shown in Fig. l and supporting asleeve 66. A link 67 connects the member 41 with the crank arm 64. Theforward end of said link is pivotally connected at 68 with the member-ll and the rear end of said link is formed with a slot 69 which engageswith a shank of the screw 65, the link being loosely confined betweenthe head of said screw and the sleeve 66. As shown in Fig. l the forwardend of the slot 69 is normally engaged with the screw 65 and at thistime the stops 43 are retracted sothat they are entirely below the frontor upper surface of the member 10. When the key 42 is pushed rearwardfrom the Fig. 4 to the Fig. 5 position the slotted rear end of the link67 will be moved longitudinally forward, and toward the latter end ofthe movement of the key 42 the rear end of the slot '69 will engage withthe screw 65 and will operate on the crank arm 64 to swing the latterforward. turning the rock shaft so that the support mg arms will swingthe stop arms 4? forward. causing the stops at the lower ends tlicf' ofto pass forward through the opening 0 tothc o ierative position shown inFig. 5" in this position it will be observed that while the stops 48 have passed part way through the openings 50 and project beyond theForward face of the member 10, they do not engage with the platensurface. it will be understood that by pulling th key 42 back from theFig. to the Fig. 4 position the stops or gaging devices 43 will beretracted to inoperative position While the feed rollers ll and theforward portion of the guide member 10 will return to cooperativeengagement with the platen. The operation of the key does not affect thetelminal rolls 16 which constantly remain enward from the same,terminating close to the ga'ged with the platen. The connections betweenthe ke'yand the stops 48 are normally passive as distinguished fromconstructions embodying springs which press the stops normally in onedirection or another.

Associated with the paper feeding and controlling devices abovedescribed I pref-v erabl employ a side gage or guide 70 adjusta lysupported on the rod 35 near the right-hand end thereof and extendingforrear, upper side of the platen. Also I employ a spring bail orpressure device to cooperate with the front, upper side of the platen,said device comprising side arms 71 and exert a pressure on the bail tomaintain the rolls 73 in operative engagement with the front side of theplaten above the printing line. Preferably also a side guide or gage 76is adjustably supported on the cross rod 72 near the left-hand endthereof. The gage 76 is intended to cooperate with the lefthand edge ofa bill sheet 77 which is. lIltI'O-.

duced from the front and which is of less width than thedistance-between the terminal rolls 16 so that the gage 76 is adjustedsomewhat to the right of the vertical plane of the left-handroll'16. Therolls' 16 cooperate with the side margins of a wide record sheet 78which is introduced into the machine'from the rear in the usual way, theside gage cooperating with the right-hand edge of said record sheet toposition it properly lengthwise of the platen.

Assuming the record sheet 7b to be in place and that it is desired tointroduce a bill sheet. such for example as a tax bill, which is thecharacter of bill for which the present exemplilication of my inventionwas particularly designed, the operator pushes the key 42 rearward fromthe Fig. 4 to the Fig. 5 position. thereby releasing the main .feedroller 11, 11, moving the paper guiding member 10 away from the platenand opening the passage 4, and swinging the end stops or gages 1-8forward substantially radially of the platen through the openings 50 inthe guide member 10. The operator then inserts from the'front of themachine the lower or bottom end portion of the bill sheet 77. guidingthe left edge of the latter against the side gage 76 and pushing thesheet 77 downward and rearward through the opening a under the platen.the side edges of the sheet passing between the engaged end rolls 16which at this time are maintaining the record sheet held or clampedagainst the platen. The rearward movement of the bill sheet continuesuntil its bottom edge contacts with'and is arrested by the end steps 48Fig. 5) which serve to gage or aline the bottom edge of the sheet. I

' Owing to thetendency of the sheet to straighten out, its bottom edgeduring its rearward movement will continue in contact with the face ofthe guide member 10 and willbe certain to engage operatively with thestops 48 so that it is not necessary for the stops 4:8 to project anyfarther forwardthrough the guide member 10 than is shownin Fig. 5. Thesheet 77 having thus been properly positioned the key 42 is pulledforward restoring the main feed roller and the guiding member 10tocooperative en The bill sheet is thus expeditiously adjusted and held inposition for receiving the first line of writing thereon. If desired,the bail 71, 72 may be lifted or swung up and the upwardly extendingportion of the bill sheet passed under the rod 72 so that the rollers 73may press the bill sheet against the platen above theprinting line. Y

It will be understood that a carbon sheet, which it has not been deemednecessary to show, is arranged between the bill sheet and the underlyingrecord sheet so as to transfer the type impressions to the record sheet.In the case of a tax bill the billis folded one or more times and carbonor transfer sheets are interleaved with the folds so that the items maybe duplicated at a single writing. Ordinari y only a single line or atmost a very few lines of writing or memoranda are written on each taxbill. It willbe seen that by moving the deflector .10 away from theplaten to provide a comparatively wide passage way which is unobstructedall the way from the front to the place where the end stops 48 project,a construction is provided which enables the bill, whether a singlesheet, afolded sheet, or a plurality of separate sheets securedtogether, to be readily adjusted to the platen and thereafter held inposition for receiving the writing, at what may be said to be a singleoperation and without the necessity of turning the platen for feedingthe paper at all either forward or backward. r

It will be noted that while the curved lower portion of-the deflector orguide'iO moves substantially radially of the platen the rear portion ofthe guide through which the end stops project, is comparativelystraight; and that this portion moves in an inclined downward directionlengthwise of itself while the movement or" the paper stops is indirection transverse oi 11's and nearly at right angles thereto. $3 "perstops are arranged to move in v cal fore and aft planes, which planespass between the terminal rolls and the main feed roller. Said terminalrolls are arranged outside of or beyond the vertical planes passing foreand aft of the machine and containing the ends of the main feed roller.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, apaper'deflector, an end stop for the paper, means for affording movementof said deflector away from the platen, and means for concurrentlymoving said stop toward the platen.

'2. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a paperdeflector curved to conform substantially thereto, a paper stop, meansfor affording movement of said paper deflector away from the platen, and

means for concurrently moving said paper stop substantially radiallytoward the platen and in a path transverse of the path of saiddeflector.

3. In a front-strike typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, apaper deflector normally engaged with the platen, said deflector curvingaround the under and forward side thereof and terminating a shortdistance below the printing line, a paper stop'independent of thedeflector, a main feed roller arranged forward of said paper stop, andmeans for affording movement of said deflector away from the platentoprovide an opening between the platen andthe deflector through whichthe paper may be introduced from the front side of the platen tocoiiperate with the paper stop. 7 4. In a front-strike typewritingmachine, the combination of a platen, a paper deflector curving aroundthe platen and termi nating a short distance below the printing line, apaper Stop at the rear of the platen and normally in inoperativeposition, means for aflording movement of the deflector away from theplaten to provide an onen- 'friction disks and an interposed w ducedfrom the front of the machine, and means for concurrently moving saidpaper stop to operative position, said paper stop moving toward theplaten through an opening in said deflector but being separated from theplaten when in working position.

6. In a typewriting machine. the combination of a platen, a paperguiding member comprising a paper deflector, coilperative with theplaten at its under side, a paper stop separate from and projectingthrough an opening in said member, means for movably supporting saidmember at two points one above the other, means for affording movementof said deflector in an inclined path downward and forward relatively tothe platen, and devices for concurrently moving said paper stop intooperative position in a path transverse of the path of the deflector.

7. In a typewriting machine, the combi nation of a platen, a paperdeflect-or, a separate end stop for the paper, means for affordingmovement of said deflector away from the platen and for maintaining thedeflector in the released position, and devices for concurrently movingsaid stop toward the platen into operative position and for maintainingsaid stop in operative posit-ion.

8. In a. typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a. paperdeflector, a separate end stop for the paper, means for atfordingmovement of said deflector away from the platen, and lost motionconncctions between said means and said end stop.

9. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a paperdeflector, a separate end stop for the paper, means for all'ordingvmovement of said deflector away from the platen, lost motionconnections between said means and said end stop for concurrently movingsaid stop, and means for holding said stop in positions to which it maybe moved.

10. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a paperdeflector, an end stop for the paper, means for affording movement ofsaid deflector away from the platen, lost motion connections betweensaid means and said endstop for concurrently moving said stop, and meansor arising holding said step in positions to which it may be moved.

11. In a typcwriting machine, the combination of a platen, an-cnd stopfor the paper, a key, mechanical lost motion connections between saidend stop and said key for afl'ording movement of said end stop into andout of operative position, and friction means comprising cooperatingfriction disks for maintaining said end stop in positions to which itmay be moved.

12. In a typcwriting machine, the combi platen,

nation of a platen, an end stop for the paper, a single key actuatedmeans for moving said end stop. both into and also out of operativeposition, said means being normally passive and separate devices formaintaining said end stop in both operative and inoperative positions. I

13. In a typewriting machine, thecomb nation of a platen, a rotarydevice, a crank arm fixed thereto, an end stop on said crank arm, asecond crankarm, a key, and me- 15. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a rotary sleeve, a crank arm fixed thereto, an endstop on said crank arm, a'second crank arm, a key faliuk connected tosaid key and having a pin and slot connection with said second crankarm, and frictional devices for maintaining said sleeve in setpositions.

16. In a typewritin-g machine, the combination of a platen, a rotarysleeve, a crank 'arm fixed thereto, .an end stop on said crank arm, asecond crank arm, a key, a link connected to' said key and having a pinand slot connection with said second crank arm,

and frictional devices comprising relatively rotatable disks and aninterposed washer for maintaining said sleeve in set positions.

17. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a combinedpaper table and deflector movably mounted, means for guiding saidcombined paper table and deector comprising a rod; a sleeve rotatable onsaid rod; a paper stop supported on said sleeve and projective throughan opening in said combined table and deflector; means for moving saiddeflector away from the said moving means comprising a key; lost motionconnections between said key and said sleeve; and friction holdingdevices for maintaining said sleeve and said paper stop in setpositions.

18. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen; a combinedpaper table and deflector movably mounted; means for guiding saidcombined paper table and de- Hector comprising a rod; a sleeve rotatableon said rod; a paper stop supported on said sleeve and projectivethrough an opening in fStll(l.C()llli lllC(l table and deflector; meansfor iiiovin said i a deflector away from the an end stop on said cranklaten, said moving means comprising a key; lostmotion connectionsbetween said key and said sleeve; and friction holding devices formaintaining said sleeve and said paper stop inset positions, saidfriction devices comprising a disk fixed-on said rod,

and a cotiperatingdisk fixed on said sleeve.

19. In a typewriting machine, the combination of a platen, a paperdeflector c0- operative with said platen and affording a passage way forthepaper leading from the front of the platen below the printing pointaround theunder side of said platen, a-pa per stop, a main feed rollerforward of the paper stop, and key controlled devices'for moving saidpaper stop into and out of said passage way at will.

20. In a typewriting machine, the com bination of a platen, a paperdeflector cooperative with said platen and movable to afford a passageway for the paper leading from the front of the platen below the printing point around the under side of said platen, a paper stop, keycontrolled devices for moving said paper stop into and out of saidpassage way at will, means for main milling the paper deflector setafter it has been moved to position to provide the passage wayaforesaid, and means for maintaining the-paper stop in operativeposition" projecping into said passage way.

bination of a platen, a paperdeflector normally operatively engaged withthe platen, a feed roller normally with the platen, a paper end stopnormally inoperative. and means for concurrently moving said deflectorout of contact with n a typewriting machine, the com operati vel y en gagod" the platen, also for releasing said feed roller per table anddeflector extending around the .115 the combination of a platemacombined paplaten from thefrontside thereof and up ward at the rear sidethereof,-a main feed roller, terminal pressure rollers, a paper stop, asidev guide for a record sheet when the machine, :1

introduced at the rear of side guide fora second sheet when introducedat the front of the machine, key'controlled means for releasing the mainfeed roller and for throwing oil the combined paper table and deflectorto afford a passage from the front of the machine. and means operativeby the same key for moving the paper stop into operative position.

In a t vpewriting machine, the combination of a platen. .i releasablemain feed roller. terminal pressure rolls, and key controlled 'paperstops movable in vertical fore and aft planes. which planes pass betweensaid terminal rolls and the outer ends of said main feed roller. 1

25. in a typewriting machine. the combination ot a platen. a releasablemain teed roller terminal pressure rolls arranged outside oi therertical' fore and aft planes pe sine through the ends of the main feedroller, ltc controlled paper stops movable in vertical fore and aftplanes which planes pass between said terminal rolls and the ends oisaid main teed roller. said stops being adapted to cooperate with thebot-tom edge of the \Yt'iili sheet intrtaluccd at toe fl'mliot' themachine. and a side guide at the front of the machine for said worltsheet.

2b. in a t i'pinrriiing machine. the combination of a platen. a paperdeiiector curving around the under and forward sides thereof andterminating below the printing line.

a iced roller. means for releasing the feed roller and concurrentlymoving the deflector to ali'ord a passage for the introduction of thepaper rearward from the front of the machine. a pressure hailcooperative with the platen above the printing line and a side guide forthe paper mounted on said pressure bail.

'27. In a typewritinfz machine. the combination of a platen. a platencarriage. paper guiding devices cooperative with the platen below theprinting line, a spring, mounted pressure bail pivoted on said carriageand cooperative with the platen above the printing line. and a side gagefor the paper mounted on said pressure bail.

2%. In a front-strike typewriting machine, the combination of a platen;a paper deflector ailording a passage around the platen from the frontside thereof below the print-- in; line. a pivotally mounted U-shapedpressure bail comprising a rod or bar extending along the platen abovethe printing line, and a side gage adjust-ably mounted on said rod orbar and cooperativewiththe side edge f per when introduce i from thefront of machine.

29. in a typc'w'riting machine the combination of a platen; paper .3 andguiding devices cooperatirc therewith; a paper stop; means for releasingsaid devices com prising an eccentric strap connected to said devices.and a. hand operated eccentric cooperative with said str" connectionsbetween said hand openv cccntric and said paper stop.

30. in a typewriting niachi .e, the combination of a platen; paperfeeding and guidilifl devices cooperative therewith; a paper stop: meansfor reie said devices comprisin an eccentric strap connected to said anda hand operated eccentric codevice operative with said strap: and lostme. connections between said hand operated centric and said paper step.said cozmec t-ions comprising a link having a pin slot connection withsaid paper stop.

51. In a typewriting machine. the combination of a platen carrier; :1piaten thereon; a roclt shaft: a feed roller supported thereby; a paperguiding member; means on said rock shaft for releasing said feed rollerand said guiding member; a paper stop: hand ope 'ated devices forturning said rock shaft comprising a crank arm on said rock shaft, aneccentric strap pivotally connected to said crank arm. and an eccentricmember cooperative with said strap and provided with a linger piece; andlost motion connections between said eccentric member and said paperstop. said lost motion connections comprising a link connected to saideccentric member and having a pin and slot connection with a rotarysleeve on which said paper stop supported.

Signed at the borough of nhattan. city of New Yorlt. in the count of NewYork and State of New York, this 29m day of Feb. A. D. 19153, 7

QLIO B. SAW.

\Vitnesses M. i .iianzi \vnincn, CHARLES E Snrrn.

